Motley County weekly changes ownership

MATADOR — Laverne Zabielski and Larry Vogt have assumed management and operations of the Motley County Tribune from longtime publisher and editor Carla Meador.

Meador sold the newspaper where she started out as proofreader and typist in 1979.

The new owners come from Kentucky where they had a studio and production facility located on their acreage in Wayne County, Ky. Zabielski also has served as an assistant editor of The Louisville (Ky.) Review.

McCarty family sells Glen Rose after 45 years

GLEN ROSE — American Consolidated Media Inc. of Dallas has purchased the publishing assets of the Glen Rose Reporter from Reporter Publishing Co. Inc., owned and operated by Dan McCarty.

McCarty will retire from the newspaper publishing business following the transaction. Ownership under the McCarty family began in 1963.

Reporter Publishing was represented by Ted Rickenbacher of Rickenbacher Media in the transaction.

American Consolidated Media was founded by Jeremy Halbreich in 1998 and became part of Macquarie Media Group in February 2007.

New owner takes over at Buffalo Press

BUFFALO — Buffalo Press publisher Chap Harriman passed ownership and management of the newspaper to Mac Shadix.

Shadix had been a staff writer and photographer for the Press for almost two years. He also has worked for The Brownsville Herald, Bay City Tribune, Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel and The Eagle in Bryan.

The paper had been in the Harriman family for many years and Chap Harriman had served as editor and publisher since 2002.

Van Zandt buys QuinlanTawakoni News

CANTON — Van Zandt Newspapers LLC, has acquired The Quinlan-Tawakoni News from L&B Publishers Inc.

Larry Briscoe, co-publisher and editor, will continue as editor of the newspaper. Briscoe has been with the newspaper for 30 years.

Van Zandt Newspapers LLC, publishes The Canton Herald, Van Zandt News, Wills Point Chronicle, Van Banner, and owns The Monitor in Mabank, The Malakoff News and The Kerens Tribune.

Express-News cuts delivery to Austin, outlying areas

SAN ANTONIO — On Dec. 31, the San Antonio Express-News stopped home delivery and single-copy sales in South Texas cities and towns where readership is too small to support the cost, the newspaper reported.

The changes will mean 12,000 fewer daily editions and 13,000 fewer Sunday editions will be distributed in those areas.

Austin, McAllen, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Donna, George West and Gonzales are among the cities that will lose delivery. In Laredo and Webb County the Express-News will deliver only its Sunday editions, which also will be delivered to Frio, La Salle and parts of Zapata counties.

As an alternative, the Express-News offered a 30-day free subscription to an E-edition for readers with Internet access.